A Philippine college fraternity used its annual naked run on Friday to protest against President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal war on drugs and the imposition of martial law in the south in the army’s fight against Islamist militants. The masked and hooded young men sprinted in the nude through their college, holding signs reading “Lift Martial Law” and “Stop the Killings”, as bystanders laughed and pointed and others took photos. This is not the first time the fraternity has taken a political stance with its yearly bare-bottomed event. The society used its naked run during the rule of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the 1980s to protest against the censorship of activists at the University of the Philippines. “But for me what they did was effective to get people’s attention on these issues.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 01, 2017 17:48 UTC